Is the Japan nuclear crisis going to end up like Chernobyl?

Question:

What I mean by this is, will Japan, the more specific areas around the nuclear plant become a ghost town?

Chernobyl/Pripyat became a total ghost town and it looks like a zombie wasteland. I was wondering if this would happen in Japan at all? What about Tokyo? If that place became a ghost city it would be horrible.

And another question?

How did Chernobyl/Pripyat become abandoned after their nuclear crisis yet, when the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in WW2 caused no ghost towns. they just rebuild over the wreckage??

Answer:

WW2 atomic bombs, Chernobyl, and this Fukushima incident are all very different.

WW2 atomic bombs were bombs, not stockpiles of nuclear waste and fuel. The destruction they did was majorly in their explosive power. Yes there was radiation left over but it was much less than what is contained at a nuclear power facility.

Chernobyl was a complete meltdown of old nuclear power technology. Much of that nuclear waste/fuel was exposed directly to the outside and caused heavy contamination.

Fukushima Nuclear is not yet a melt down. Most of the reactors are in a stable (though not safe) condition. The nuclear fuel and waste has not been exposed as badly as it was in Chernobyl.

Currently only a small area of Japan should be affected. But the crisis is not yet over so it can go any direction.